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SECTION V.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Ante-Natal and Infant-Welfare Centres.
1. The Tsan Yuk Hospital maintains an ante-natal and Infant-welfare clinic. The number of babies brought to this centre was 504 and the total number of visits was 3,185.
Another clinic is maintained at the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital where the visits made for ante-natal purposes or with Infants amounted to 434.
Infants are treated at the Out-patient Departments of the various Hospitals and at the Chinese Public Dispensaries.
Midwives.
1. Under the Midwives Ordinance of 1910 "no one whose name is not on the Midwives Register may practice midwifery habitually for gain or describe herself as one specially qualified to carry on the work of a midwife".
2. Training Schools for Midwives have been established at the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital, the Tsan Yuk Hospital and the Government Civil Hospital. The course of study necessary to qualify for the examination is two years. Examinations are held two or three times a year by examiners appointed by the Midwives Board.
During 1928, 15 Candidates satisfied the examiners and were registered.
The total number on the register at the end of 1928 was 183.
3. There are seven Midwives on the Government Medical establishment whose services are free to those who cannot afford to pay a fee. Four of these are stationed in the New Territory, two do duty in connection with the Chinese Public Dispensaries and one is attached to the Alice Memorial Hospital. All with the exception of the last are supervised by a Government Lady Medical Officer.
During the year 1,115 cases were attended by the Government Midwives.